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DrakeRlugia
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Consequences of No Restoration of the French Parlements?
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To be honest, by the last years of the Ancien Régime (essentially in 1788-89) they had essentially run into issues of paying their short...
Yesterday at 5:35 PM
DrakeRlugia
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Consequences of No Restoration of the French Parlements?
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I definitely agree re: Calonne, though I think his reforms came a bit too late given the terrible shape of France's finances by the...
Yesterday at 1:31 AM
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Anno Obumbratio: A 16th Century Alternate History
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Yes, that's very true. Between two and four million people were killed throughout the entirety of the conflict between 1562-1598. I...
Yesterday at 12:32 AM
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Anno Obumbratio: A 16th Century Alternate History
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Italy was also very wealthy and economically developed before the destruction and upheavals of the Italian Wars. Much of the northern /...
Tuesday at 8:48 PM
DrakeRlugia
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Consequences of No Restoration of the French Parlements?
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Yes, as Constantine says, the term Parlement can be confusing. The French Parlements were legal courts (essentially provincial appellate...
Tuesday at 5:19 PM
DrakeRlugia
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Anno Obumbratio: A 16th Century Alternate History
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Honestly, it was not much more libertine than OTL. Not enough to press secularization forward, IMO. Libertinism could very easily go...
Tuesday at 12:55 PM
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WI: Maria Theresa of Austria married Charles III of Spain?
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This may very well be the case—but I think there was also a need for both sides to have such an alliance at that point in time...
Sunday at 4:26 AM
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France gets Burgundian Inheritance, what now?
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I'll side-step 'how' France inherits Burgundy for now, since that's a difficult question and there's a variety ways for us to get there...
Saturday at 9:38 PM
DrakeRlugia
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WI: Maria Theresa of Austria married Charles III of Spain?
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Well, it would be distinct branches—not all under one person. The French and Spanish Bourbons did not always walk in lockstep, and...
Saturday at 9:00 PM
DrakeRlugia
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WI: Maria Theresa of Austria married Charles III of Spain?
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Alternate History Discussion: Before 1900
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Maria Theresa, Charles VI's heiress, was at the center of his plans of what might happen following his eventual demise. While there...
Saturday at 7:57 PM
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What if Japan was a colonial super power before the 19th century?
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For Spain and Portugal, yes. France's most profitable colonies in the New World were not it's extensive territories in Canada and...
Saturday at 4:56 PM
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WI: rice and rubber became cultivated in the Mediterrranean and Europe starting from Roman times?
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IIRC, the Romans were aware of rice, but it was mostly a luxury import. They imported Oryza Sativa from India, and there's some proof...
Saturday at 4:52 PM
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Louis XV makes more of an effort to marry his daughters off
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Indeed. Victor Amadeus II was married to Anne Marie d'Orléans. His son, Charles Emmanuel was fairly fluid in his alliances: fought...
Friday at 7:57 PM
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Plausibility check- Could France & French Indochina have been disinterested in Laos, crisis with Siam, and common border with British Burma?
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IIRC, the French found out quite quickly in the 1860s via the 1866-68 Mekong expedition that the Mekong wasn't navigable and would be...
May 2, 2024
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The English Charlemagne: A Plantagenet-Capet TL
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This is definitely an interesting idea to ponder Nuraghe, as you discussed in the other thread. I do worry about what might happen after...
Apr 24, 2024
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